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Tazria-Metzora: Women Are Inherently Connected to Purity
These two parshiot centre around the theme of tuma and tahara, commonly translated as purity and impurity. The weakness of this translation is that “impurity” suggests the presence of something unfavourable, perhaps unclean – but this is far from the truth. Tuma is the absence of the flow of a life force. This is why
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Shemini: Jewish Women, The Mashgichot of their Households
Parshat Shemini contains many of our kashrut laws: the fish, birds and animals we may and may not eat as well as the prohibition to consume bugs…
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Shemini: Jewish Women, The Mashgichot of their Households
Parshat Shemini contains many of our kashrut laws: the fish, birds and animals we may and may not eat as well as the prohibition to consume bugs. As Jewish women, we are entrusted with the kashrut level of our homes. We are designated as the Mashgiach, the supervisor: ensuring that no milk splashes onto the
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Tzav: Gratitude Is the Fabric of Jewish Life
As we sit around the Seder table, we can appreciate our spouse, our children, our parents, siblings, friends…
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Vayikra: Bringing Our Authentic Selves as A Korban
The pasuk in Vayikra commands us emphatically to salt every korban: “And you shall salt every one of your meal offering sacrifices with salt and you shall not omit the salt of your G-d’s covenant from your meal offerings. You shall offer salt on all your sacrifices.”..
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Vayakhel: There Is No Wisdom to Woman Except the Spindle
This week’s parsha discusses the donations of the “chachmei leiv”, the wise-hearted men and women who gave materials towards the Mishkan…
